Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate developer, casino owner, entertainment mogul, TV personality and father of a woman who converted to Judaism and says she observes Shabbat, tossed hit hat into the huge ring of Republican candidates for president Tuesday.

He probably holds the record for being the most frequent “almost candidate,” having hinted several times in the past he would run for president.

This time it is for real. He said in his announcement in a 45-minute speech in New York:

I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again. Sadly the American dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

He boasted his net worth at $8.7 billion, twice the amount estimated by most sources, and said:

I’m really rich. I’m not doing that to brag. I’m doing that to say that’s the kind of thinking our country needs. We need that thinking. We have the opposite thinking. We have losers…. The greatest social program is a job.

Trump went on to state, without batting an eyelash:

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” I’ve watched the politicians, I’ve dealt with them all my life. They will never make America great again. They don’t even have a chance.

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Polls show that Trump has a chance to win the Republican nomination, but he still is a long shot. He loves Israel, but it is questionable if American Jews love him. He has made statements disparaging blacks and Hispanics, so he can forget about most of them for support.

What might really be interesting is if he does not win the Republican nomination but runs as an Independent. third-party candidate. That would make for the most interesting presidential election since former Alabama governor and segregationist George Wallace’s four pitches for the presidency, earning him the description of America’s “most influential loser.”

Trump, like Wallace, is a gadfly and shoots from the hip, something like an American version of Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman before he got too smart for his own good. Trump has sworn up and down that President Barack Obama did not fulfill a basic qualification for the presidency by being born in the United States. Trump’s constant jabs at Obama, along with those of other “birthers,” finally forced the president to produce a birth certificate. Of course, the hard-core birthers said it was a fake.

Trump’s name is plastered on a variety of industries, from real estate to wrestling, media, golf course, a chartering company, ice cream parlor, a line of men’s wear, vodka, books, steaks and a golf course.

Being a maverick gives him the image of sticking by his word. When he says he loves Israel, he puts his money where his mouth is. Trump has a huge real estate project in Netanya, and his daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism, looks favorably on Israel for real estate investment.

Her husband is from an Orthodox Jewish family, and she has taken her conversion seriously, adding “Yael” to her name and saying that “we’re pretty observant, more than some, less than others.”

If “the Donald” is elected president, the United States will have its first Jewish daughter in the White House.

Her father hates President Obama with a passion and has said that he is Israel’s greatest enemy. Trump also is a fan of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Below are three videos. The first one includes parts of Trump’s speech today, the second one is from 2013, when Trump endorse Netanyahu for Prime Minister. and third is of Ivanka’s visit to Jerusalem in 2008._________________--
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."

Trump Says Bush Administration 'Knew an Attack Was Coming' Before 9/11
They knew an attack was coming,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says on CNN as feud continues with rival Jeb Bush over 9/11 handling by Bush’s brother’s administration. George Tenet, the CIA director, knew in advance that there would be an attack, and he said so to the president, and he said so to everybody else that would listen,” Trump says
Trump faults FBI, CIA, National Security Council for “not talking to each other” On the other hand, the skirmish has resurrected a larger debate about whether President Bush did all that he could in the run-up to the attacks and how he responded, including in the now-unpopular decision to invade Iraq.
Trump repeated his criticism again on Monday morning to CNN, and, hours later, directed his followers to 2012 op-ed in the New York Times by Kurt Eichenwald, who highlighted a now-famous daily brief that President Bush received on Aug. 6, 2001, titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2015/10/18/trump-tripl es-down-on-george-w-bushs-responsibility-for-9_________________"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther king

Donald Trump says he doesn’t flat out blame former president George W. Bush that the Sept. 11 terror attacks happened on his watch. But he can think of three reasons why one could hold Bush responsible.

And, he might add, they are three things a President Trump would do very differently.

“You always have to look to the person at the top,” Trump said Saturday in a telephone interview. “Do I blame George Bush? I only say that he was the president at the time, and you know, you could say the buck stops here.”

So why might one consider Bush responsible?

No. 1: Bush’s immigration policy. “We had very weak immigration laws,” Trump said, adding that perhaps if Bush had had a Trump-style immigration policy, replete with “the strong laws that I’m wanting, these terrorists wouldn’t have been in the country.”

No. 2: People knew that the FBI, the National Security Council, and the CIA weren’t sharing information about potential threats. “They were not talking to each other,” Trump said. “If I’m president, I want to have my three most important agencies talking to each other and coordinating with each other.”

And No. 3: George Tenet, Bush’s director of central intelligence, “knew in advance that there would be an attack, and he said that.”

“I don’t blame anybody,” Trump continued, after listing those points. “But it’s possible,” he continued, that had the administration had stronger policy on those points, “perhaps something could have been done that was obviously better than the worst attack ever perpetrated on the United States.”

Trump, the real estate mogul, and former Florida governor Jeb Bush have been hurling vitriol at each other since Friday, after Trump pointed out during a Bloomberg News interview that “the World Trade Center came down during [former president Bush’s] reign.”

Jeb Bush retorted on Twitter, calling Trump’s comments “pathetic” and repeating an argument he used during the most recent Republican debate: that his brother “kept us safe.”

Trump returned fire on Twitter, adding that he was just being polite when the subject came up for discussion at the debate. Like it or not, he said, Bush was in the White House when the Twin Towers came down.

According to a recent YouGov/Huffington Post poll taken in the days after the last Republican debate, more than 80 percent of Republicans believe George W. Bush did either a “good” or “excellent” job “keeping the U.S. safe while president.”

But even considering Bush’s tenure solely after 9/11, Trump can’t say he agrees.

“I’m not sure that anybody can answer that question. Because you don’t know,” Trump said — effectively making the point that it’s difficult to prove a negative. “Was it something we did? Was it policy that kept it? All I know is that the Twin Towers came down, and I was there.”

People and groups Donald Trump has denounced_________________"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther king

Said just enough to mean absolutely nothing but as you say trying to sway votes. But at least he has thrown it into the equation_________________JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12

The idea that Trump is some sort of outsider is laughable
He has not even an ounce of respectable sugar coating like some previous candidates - he IS the Mafia
WHY DON'T TRUMP'S OPPONENTS USE THE DIRT W.E. HAS DUG OUT HERE? BECAUSE THE MAFIA HAVE ALL THE DIRT ON THEM TOO PERHAPS?

A Mafia Don with a Pompadour
http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/
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Every four years Americans get to vote for a President. The last President who might have made a positive difference to the country and the world was John F. Kennedy. Just before his assassination, JFK was moving to disengage from Vietnam. He was in a back-channel dialogue with Soviet head Nikita Khrushchev to insure a repeat of the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis, a near-nuclear war by miscalculation, would never happen (bad for US military-industrial complex and the Rockefellers among others). In short, he was starting to deviate from The Program.

JFK as we all know was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. His assassins included networks of Allen Dulles’ CIA, including a then-young CIA agent named G.H.W. Bush; elements of the Mafia around New Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello; elements of the Dallas Police; mafia-CIA-linked gangster night club owner, Jack Ruby; Texan political boss, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; networks of the Pentagon. The only one who was innocent was the one Ruby rubbed out to silence him: Lee Harvey Oswald.

That was fifty three years ago. I was in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot. The TV scenes are burned in my memory as national trauma like with most Americans back then.

Since then the United States of America, the land of the free and home of the brave, has gradually become a nation of confused, angry, lost souls who no longer know why we should exist as a nation. We’ve lost sight of what happened to our moral purpose so beautifully described in the documents of our founding fathers at the end of the 18th Century. All we do with our rage, frustration and growing feeling of impotence as a people is to project that rage on the world in the form of making wars, wars, wars everywhere–Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, wars on our border to Mexico, wars in our cities, and on and on. We don’t even bother to know for what moral purpose the war anymore. We long ago dispensed with the moral open protests that were so prevalent during the 1960’s and 1970’s during the Vietnam War.

JFK was followed as President by LBJ, a war criminal and far worse. LBJ was followed by “Tricky Dick” Nixon, a Republican with a dirty past who was Watergated by Henry Kissinger and the Rockefeller clan. Then came Nixon’s Vice President, Gerald Ford. One of the few things I could agree on with LBJ was his comment that Ford, whom Johnson knew from his Senate days, “couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” That was quite OK for those who put him in power. Brains and independent thinking like JFK were not desired in “their” Presidents. Nelson Rockefeller was Ford’s Vice President was was there to do the walking and gum-chewing for Ford.

When the nation got sick of Republican Ford they voted in a Democrat, Georgia born-again peanut farmer governor named Jimmy Carter. What Americans didn’t know was that every major cabinet post of Carter, including Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was given to Carter by a very secretive private club set up by David Rockefeller and Brzezinski in 1973 to control globalization policies in North America, Europe and Japan. It was accordingly named the Trilateral Commission.

Carter Administration members of the select Rockefeller Trilateral Commission included, in addition to Carter and Brzezinski, Walter F. Mondale (Vice President); Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State, nephew of John W. Davis, of the J. P. Morgan bank who was first President of the CFR); W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of Treasury); Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense); Andrew Young (Ambassador to the United Nations); Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

David Rockefeller’s Carter Presidency was followed by Republican Ronald Reagan, a B-grade Hollywood actor, with George H.W. Bush as Vice President in every sense of the word “vice,” running Reagan’s misnamed War on Drugs as well as the criminal enterprise later known as Iran-Contra. Bush, ex-CIA chief, ran most of Reagan’s Presidency until he stepped in 1988 for his long-sought goal to run and ruin the country.

Then came “Bubba,” Bill Clinton, aptly described by Mafia boss, John Gotti, as “that Arkansas white trailer-park trash,” a President who apparently believed that rape was a prerogative of political office. Clinton, who was intimate family friends with the Bushes before their 1992 election, was a former Arkansas Governor who as State Attorney General, willingly turned a blind eye to CIA cocaine aircraft via Mena Arkansas airport in exchange for desk-loads of $100 bill payoffs according towitnesses. Bill Clinton’s Presidency witnessed the most cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation of any US President. Clinton “baby sat” the Oval Office until the Bush clan could manipulate the 2000 election via an unconstitutional decision by the US Supreme Court enabling George W. Bush to become President with Vice President Dick Cheney running most of the show.

When the 2007-2008 financial crisis exploded Americans’ real estate bubble dreams, and the Afghan and Iraq wars proved utter fiasco, most Americans became desperate for “change.” What they got was a Hollywood fiction, in form of a protégé of the CIA, the first black President of the United States, Barack Obama. Behind the curtains, the very same circles of Wall Street banks, military-industry and agribusiness firms like Monsanto ran Obama, another war-making disaster for America.

Now again Americans are being asked to vote for a new President. As it stands in mid-March 2016, it will be a race between Clinton’s putative wife, Hillary Clinton, on the Democrat side running against Donald Trump, a circus clown worthy as some have suggested, of a remake of the hilarious 1967 Mel Brooks comedy, The Producers, with Trump, with his signal Pompadour hairdo, playing the role of scheming, manipulative failed Broadway producer, Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock.

Mafia Don’s Murky Past

Presidential candidate Trump prefers the grandiose titular name, The Donald. In reality, to be honest to his background, it should be The Mafia Don as in Don Coreleone in the movie The Godfather. Trump’s past is so intertwined with organized crime it’s incredible that the hand-wringing GOP anti-Trump establishment or Hillary Clinton have not smeared it across every newspaper in America.

Trump was born just after the end of World War II in Jamaica Queens, New York some seventy years ago. He was son of Fred Trump, a major New York real estate and construction developer. It was well known to every taxi driver or bar owner that for anyone to be a success in New York construction he had to be on friendly terms with the mob, then and today. Just like those who run the garbage disposal businesses, or control the harbors. Fred Trump’s son Don left business school to join daddy Fred’s construction and real estate business in New York City.

Trump’s early mentor in the ways of doing slick, shady construction business in New York was one of the sleaziest characters in New York, a lawyer named Roy Cohn.

Cohn, once lawyer for the sleazy US Senator Joe McCarthy, reportedly shaped McCarthy’s insane paranoid campaign against unnamed communists in the State Department in the early 1950s. Cohn’s biographer, Nicholas von Hoffman, noted that Cohn “lived in a matrix of crime and unethical conduct…derived a significant part of his income from illegal or unethical schemes and conspiracies.” His ties to the mob were so close that he allowed top Mafia bosses like Frank Costello to hold their meetings in his law office so they could claim lawyer-client immunity privilege.

Cohn, who was pronounced dead of AIDS in 1986 and was described by Hoffman as, “the best-known non-show-business homosexual in the country,” was the attorney for a notorious cocaine-snorting Manhattan nightclub in the late 1970’s called Studio 54.

Hoffman wrote of the orgies at Studio 54 held by Cohn, “For special celebrities, the wildest parties were held in the basement…with high society’s homosexuals, transsexuals and transvestites…” Cohn held some of his biggest birthday bangs, attended on at least one occasion by, “the important officials of the Democratic, Republican, and Conservative parties, most of the city’s major elected officials, a number of Congressmen, the Chief Judge of the United States District Court and Roy’s usuals…Donald Trump.”

Donald Trump, organized crime lawyer, Roy Cohn, and cocaine orgies in the basement of Studio 54 attended by judges and politicians of every party? In an interview Trump even described one such Studio 54 orgy he attended: “I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed, on a bench in the middle of the room. There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy. This was in the middle of the room.” He omitted to say whether he was among that seven.

In the 1970’s when Trump was in his 20’s he hired Roy Cohn as his attorney and “fixer” as he took over his father’s New York real estate and construction business. Trump and Cohn were regular companions at Studio 54 where Cohn was the lawyer. Trump reportedly even kept a photo of Cohn in his office.

In 1979, Cohn introduced Trump to a political dirty-tricks specialist named Roger Stone. Trump and Stone remain close to the present day. Stone, who has worked with Trump on campaigns since 1987, including the present Presidential bid, was charged and fined along with Trump for illegally breaking campaign rules as they fought the development of Indian casinos, competition for Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. Stone’s advice to Trump and other clients was, “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack….When somebody screws you, screw ‘em back­but a lot harder.” Trump learned Stone’s method well. In 2015 Trump again hired Stone for managing his GOP Presidential bid, but reportedly fired him in August, 2015 for taking too much credit for Trump’s growing success. The Don likes to take all credit. He is, after all, grandiose.

The Don’s mob pals

Mentored since his 20’s by New York mob attorney, Roy Cohn, The Don ever since has been involved with mob or mafia figures. Characteristically, as befits a protegé of Roy Cohn, Trump always denies knowing they were mob figures.

Don Trump entered the world of casino gambling in 1987. Casinos have invariably been associated with laundering money, criminal money of the mob, of the CIA for covert operations like Iran-Contra­taking dirty money and making it “clean,” untraceable. Las Vegas was created by Meyer Lansky, the late head of what was called during Prohibition “Murder Inc.” Lansky ran the casinos of pre-Castro Cuba until the Cuban Revolution in 1959 kicked him and his casinos out. In 1987, a year after his mentor and close friend Roy Cohn died of AIDS, Trump bought 93% control of a dubious casino company in the Bahamas called Resorts International.

Resorts International evolved from a CIA money-laundering front company set up by CIA chief Allen Dulles in the 1950’s. It was called the harmless-sounding name Mary Carter Paint Company. It later merged with help of CIA funds, with Jim Crosby’s Crosby-Miller Corporation. The name was changed to Resorts International in 1968 and it ran casinos in the Caribbean. In 1963, Alvin I. Malnik, a top henchman of crime boss Meyer Lansky, was deeply involved with Mary Carter/Resorts. Resorts International financed a New Jersey referendum that made casino gambling legal in one city in the state-Atlantic City.

Jim Crosby, an alleged CIA front man who later founded a private security company called Intertel whose clients numbered the late Shah of Iran and late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, then died. His family sold the 93% control of Resorts International to…The Don, Donald Trump, in March 1987. Casinos in Atlantic City were the result of a decision years earlier at a mob meeting in Acapulco of the Meyer Lansky Syndicate to expand operations outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Resorts International, then one of the most successful casino operations, was used to do it. Trump entered that charmed world in 1987.

In 1991 Trump and his Atlantic City Trump Plaza casino came into trouble with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission about his dealings with Robert LiButti, a high-rolling gambler and horse breeder who was later banned from Atlantic City for his ties to mob boss, John Gotti. When asked about the LiButti tie, Trump retorted, as he always does, that he “couldn’t recall” the name. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer when questioned about his relation to LiButti, “I have heard he is a high roller, but if he was standing here in front of me, I wouldn’t know what he looked like.” The only problem is that LiButti’s daughter, Edith Creamer, LiButti’s daughter, told Yahoo News that Trump’s account was false. “He’s a liar,” said Creamer. “Of course he knew him. I flew in the [Trump] helicopter with [Trump’s then wife] Ivana and the kids. My dad flew it up and down [to Atlantic City]. My 35th birthday party was at the Plaza and Donald was there. After the party, we went on his boat, his big yacht. I like Trump, but it pisses me off that he denies knowing my father.

In 2010, The Don appointed Felix H. Sater aka Satter, an executive at Bayrock Group LLC, to be Trump’s “senior business adviser,” with an office next to Trump’s and Trump business cards. Sater’s Bayrock had partnered with Trump on the Trump Soho high-rise hotel in Manhattan and other branded luxury real estate deals. Sater had pleaded guilty in 1998 to racketeering for his role in a $40 million stock fraud scheme involving the Genovese and Bonanno crime families. When an AP reporter questioned Trump about Sater in December, 2015, The Don replied his usual, “Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it. I’m not that familiar with him.” A spokesman for the Trump Organization acknowledged publicly that Sater worked for Trump after the disclosures of Sater’s criminal background. Sater is a Russian émigré who emigrated to Brooklyn in 1974.

American success story?

Trump has become a political phenomenon and popular among frustrated Americans fed up with lying Washington politicians. He wins traditional Democratic labor union support for attacking Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal for robbing more American jobs. He wins support from confused angry unemployed or underemployed voters when he pledges to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegal refugees out, calling them drug dealers and criminals. Similarly, he garners support from the so-called “silent majority” when he proposes, quite against the US Constitution, to ban any and all Muslims from entering the United States.

The Don has someone behind the scenes, perhaps old crony Roger Stone, giving him very savvy advice on the “hot button” issues on voters’ minds and panders to that, as any skilled demagogue would. He does it in sound bytes. He spells out no coherent program to rebuild America or to deal with a nation in existential crisis other than to proclaim he could “sit down with Putin” and work a deal. About what, he never says.

Trump’s campaign website proclaims the now familiar mantra, “Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence in business, real estate and entertainment.”

What he chooses not to play up is that he has repeatedly declared bankruptcy on his casinos then, suspiciously, coming out of bankruptcy smelling like the proverbial rose. Trump’s hotel and casino businesses have declared bankruptcy five times between 1991 and 2014. Because the businesses used Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they were allowed to operate while the owners attempted to settle accounts with investors through asset sales and debt cancellation.

According to a report by Forbes in 2011, the first four bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City: Trump’s Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, and Trump Entertainment Resorts. Boasting, Trump said “I’ve used the laws of this country to pare debt. … We’ll have the company. We’ll throw it into a chapter. We’ll negotiate with the banks. We’ll make a fantastic deal. You know, it’s like on The Apprentice. It’s not personal. It’s just business.”

There are two possible conclusions to draw from the above documents of a fifty some year history of businessman Don Trump and a myriad gaggle of business associates who are tied to the mob. Either it is true, as he says again and again, that he was unaware of their mob ties and worked with them for superior their business skills. In that case, with fifty years of such abysmal lack of elementary due diligence in checking backgrounds of those he works with in the most sensitive positions, Don Trump is demonstrably not qualified, on national security grounds, to even be White House gardener. On the other hand, if the ties are with knowledge and clear intent, from Roy Cohn to those of the last several years, Don Trump then is a narcissistic pathetic real estate and casino gangster who ought never to step near the most powerful office on Earth.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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Mr Trump said it was 'disgusting' the plaintiffs' law firm donated to Clinton - but so did how own lawyer AP
Donald Trump’s lawyer donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign just one month after he was hired by the Republican for the Trump University debacle, amid Mr Trump’s claims that the “Mexican” judge was “biased” against him.

Mr Trump said to Fox News’ Sean Hannity this week that it was “disgusting” that the law firm on the other side donated large sums to Ms Clinton’s team.

“The law firm gave hundreds of thousands — I think it was $900,000 or $700,000 — in speaking fees to the Clintons,” he said. “Plus, they contributed tremendous amounts of money to the campaign.”

Yet his own lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, who is best known for winning $33.5 million in a wrongful death suit against O J Simpson, has donated to Ms Clinton and several other democrats over the last 15 years, as reported by Politico.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Mr Petrocelli donated $2,700, the maximum allowed per election cycle, to Ms Clinton in January 2016, one month after Mr Trump hired him.

He told the Hollywood Reporter in April that Mr Trump “didn't hire me for my political views. He hired me for my legal skills.”

His law firm, O’Melveny & Myers, has donated close to $20,000 to Ms Clinton’s campaign.

The discovery comes at the same time that Mr Trump has accused Gonzalo Curiel, the judge residing over the lawsuit against his now defunct Trump University, of being “unfair” towards him due to his nationality - Mr Trump has repeatedly called the judge a “Mexican” although he was born in Indiana.

“I’ve been treated very unfairly by the judge,” Mr Trump told CNN last week. “This judge is of Mexican heritage. I’m building a wall. … I think he should recuse himself.”

Mr Trump tried to dampen the backlash - including house speaker Paul Ryan’s response that Mr Trump’s comments were the “textbook definition of racism” - by saying that a Muslim judge might also treat him unfairly due to his call to ban Muslims from the US.

The ruling was arguably doing Mr Trump a favour as the plaintiffs’ lawyers had pushed for the trial to be held right after the Republican convention in July.

“The judge is doing his job,” said Mr Petrocelli outside the San Diego court house in May. ”We’re not seeking to recuse the judge.“_________________--
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
http://aangirfan.blogspot.comhttp://aanirfan.blogspot.com
Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."

Yes, Melania Was A Hooker Before She Married Señor Trumpanzee
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/yes-melania-was-hooker-b efore-she.html
When I was very young and very destitute-- having just returned to the U.S. after nearly 7 years abroad-- I found myself broke and homeless in New York. I'm not proud to say so, but I made some money for myself down near 53rd and 3rd in Manhattan for a unpleasant few months until I got a record selling business going. I'm telling you that because I don't want you to think that I am being judgmental when I say that Melania Trump was doing the same thing at one point-- albeit not on Manhattan street corners. The stories from her old johns have been around forever and every time I wondered aloud when they would start coming out, I was bombarded with hate mail, often from media tools, the same types who used to attack me when I talked about Mark Foley being a child molester before it was officially announced that he was "sending naughty instant messages" to underage congressional pages and that he was resigning from Congress and checking into a rehab facility in Arizona.
Anyone familiar with the Trumpanzee clan shouldn't be surprised that Madam Trumpanzee is suing the Daily Mail for exposing her former career over the weekend:

Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas that won't go away: The VERY racy past of Donald Trump's Slovenian wife.
As they pointed out, "she was tall, striking, 28-year-old Slovenian model, with a sexy accent; he was a a 52-year-old billionaire, with a ridiculous comb-over , but within minutes of minute they had swapped numbers back in 1998." Ahhhh... the Kit Kat Club! They got married 7 years later.
According to a Slovenian journalist who has recently published an unauthorised biography of Melania, the Kit Kat meeting was staged-- an elaborate act for the benefit of the public.

Bojan Pozar claims the pair first met three years earlier, in 1995, around the time of the nude photo shoot. ‘During my research I was told that they met in 1995,’ says Pozar, a journalist who is co-author of Melania Trump-- The Inside Story: From A Slovenian Communist Village To The White House.

"I don’t know what sort of relationship they had but I do know they were in touch from my conversations with modelling agents while researching the book. After 1995, Trump helped Melania with her modelling career. The agents said: 'Trump’s money talks.' The first cover Melania did was for the April 1996 edition of Spanish Harper’s Bazaar.

"The years between 1995 and 1998 are the most secret years of Melania Trump. She’d had a number of boyfriends in Slovenia, but we did not find anyone involved with Melania romantically during these years-- it is very strange."

If this is the case, it casts an even more troubling complexion on the work visa scandal concerning Melania that refuses to go away. Trump’s uncompromising stance on immigration is, after all, very well known. It has been suggested by commentators in America that Melania did not have a work visa when she undertook the early nude modelling assignment in 1995.

Comments she made earlier this year that while working in New York she travelled to Slovenia "to stamp the visa," appear inconsistent with someone holding a U.S. H-1B work visa (who would not have to do this) and more suggestive of someone holding a tourist visa.

This month, 46-year-old Melania published a statement on Twitter saying she has "at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country," but she is yet to produce documentary evidence that she was in possession of the correct legal paperwork.

If Trump knew Melania at this time, and she was working on a tourist visa, it doesn’t look very good for a politician who made the issue of illegal immigration central to his campaign.

But why lie about the dates in the first place? Well, firstly, in 1995 Trump was still married to his second wife, Marla Maples, whom he’d wed in 1993.

His affair with Maples while still married to his first wife, Ivana, whom he married in 1977 and divorced in 1992, was well-publicised. Even back then, Trump had his eyes set on the White House and having weathered the Maples scandal, conservative America might not be so forgiving if it happened a second time.

Claims that the 1998 meeting was a "ruse" are also made in another book, published this year, and available on Amazon. The title is decidedly unsavoury: From The Whore House To The White House: The True Story Of Melania Trump.

The book makes a number of unpleasant claims-- such as one that a modelling agency Melania worked for in Milan before moving to New York was "something like a gentleman’s club."

The claims are all unsubstantiated and the Mail could find no trace of the book’s author, Adam Schlecter. It is quite possibly the work of an enemy of Trump-- there are many.

Yet the fact a book with such a title even exists must be an acute embarrassment to the Trumps.

A spokesperson said: "This is an unauthorised book written by malicious and bitter 'reporters.' They have never met or spoken to Mrs Trump and wrote a book filled with lies for their personal gain."

But the rumour mill does not stop whirring there. Earlier this month, a Slovenian magazine, Suzy, published a front page story claiming Melania’s modelling agency in New York, run by New York entrepreneur, Paolo Zampolli, also operated as an escort agency for wealthy clients.

"On the one hand they [the girls] pretended to be models, but they principally earned money as elite escorts," the magazine article claimed. "They even had two composite cards (presentation cards held by each model)-- with two photos and basic information such as measurements, eye and hair colour, and agency details.

"One composite card was for the modelling business, and the other one for the sex business, as it stated whether they prefer the older men and described their abilities in the bedroom."

The article added: "What Melania’s [composite card] looked like only the people involved know, but it is no coincidence she got a rich husband."

This week the Mail spoke to the author of the piece, under the condition of anonymity. He insisted the seemingly fantastical story was correct, but all he would say to corroborate it was the information came from sources in America.

Mr Zampolli, however, was very clear. He told the Mail the allegations were "f****** rubbish. My agency was never an escort agency... come on," he said.

There is no evidence to back up these startling claims made in Suzy magazine. But there is yet more trouble afoot in Slovenia. We spoke to Peter Butoln, a 48-year-old PR, who describes himself as Melania’s first boyfriend. They met when she was 17 and dated for a few months before he had to go into the army.

He claims to be in possession of some pictures of Melania, topless and in her underwear. He is refusing to rule out selling these photographs and appears to be waiting for the moment Melania steps inside the White House for maximum impact.

"An American media organisation offered me $200,000 for the pictures a few weeks ago, but I refused the offer. But will I sell them in the future? We’ll have to see." He smiles. He seems to relish the thought that he might have another bomb ready to detonate under Donald Trump’s feet.

has emerged, with alleged victim Katie Johnson filing a lawsuit (under the name of Jane Doe) against both Donald Trump and convicted pedophile offender Jeffrey Epstein. You may recall that Trump and Epstein were already connected in many ways, including a connection in relation to pedophilia, since Epstein’s “little black book” contained Trump’s name (among his other rich high-flying clients such as Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew). Although the victim’s claims are still allegations and not provable facts, this is nonetheless more reason to view Trump as an establishment candidate who has rubbed shoulders with the wealthy and powerful, who is privy to and has participated in the elite’s penchant for pedophilia, and who would undoubtedly advance the agenda of the New World Order. So what’s in the Trump pedophile lawsuit?
Katie Johnson Claims in the Trump Pedophile Lawsuit

For those familiar with the dark, murderous, pedophilic and Satanic underbelly of the worldwide conspiracy, accounts such as this will come as no surprise. Pedophilia has been exposed on such a massive level (e.g. in Australia) that we know it is a central pillar of the New World Order. Johnson makes several disturbing claims, all of which fit the pattern of abuse that is so common in these cases. We have enticement and procurement:

“Plaintiff was enticed by promises of money and a modeling career to attend a series of parties, with other similarly situated minor females, held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. At least four of the parties were attended by Defendant Trump. On information and belief, by this time in 1994, Defendant Trump had known Defendant Epstein for seven years (New York, 10/28/02), and knew that Plaintiff was then just 13 years old.”

Then we have violent rape, assault, and the use of force and power:

“Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff’s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”

Next we have threats of harm and/or murder to cover it up:

“Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”

Then we have the Satanic obsession with defiling purity and taking virginity:

“Defendant Epstein had sexual contact with Plaintiff at two of the parties. The second sexual encounter with Defendant Epstein took place after Plaintiff had been raped by Defendant Trump. Defendant Epstein forced himself upon Plaintiff and proceeded to rape her anally and vaginally despite her loud pleas to stop. Defendant Epstein then attempted to strike Plaintiff about the head with his closed fists while he angrily screamed at Plaintiff that he, Defendant Epstein, rather than Defendant Trump, should have been the one who took Plaintiff’s virginity …”

Trump and his brigade of lawyers, of course, have flatly denied the charges and attempted to poke holes in the story, by pointing out the woman named “Katie Johnson” many not even exist since her home address listed on the Trump pedophile lawsuit turns out to be an empty, foreclosed property at Twentynine Palms in California. However, in the suit the Plaintiff does mention she continued getting threatening phone calls (with caller ID unknown) until she changed her number, and is quite plausibly scared for her life and trying to hide behind anonymity.

The MSM appears to be avoiding the story, and even if they do expose it, Trump will hide behind plausible deniability. However, as more and more evidence like this comes to light, it is becoming increasingly obvious that something is very off with Donald Trump (if you didn’t already know it from his pedophilic overtones with his daughter Ivanka), and that he is totally untrustable.
Conclusion: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump Both Connected to Pedophilia

Trump likes to bash Bill Clinton wherever he can about Bill’s history of being a sexual profligate, predator and rapist. However, Trump himself may not be much better. It’s classic “pot calling the kettle black” stuff. If the allegations in the Trump pedophile lawsuit by Katie Johnson are true, and if the evidence about Trump’s connection to Epstein holds water, then Trump is part of exactly the same child sex slave network that Clinton is or was.

John White
2nd November 2016
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Trump, Israel and where I stand:
Ok, here I am, Independent Spiritual Philosopher, Veteran of BREXIT, Veteran of Truth Movement web forum admin, Veteran of 9/11 Truth
And the last two weeks, I've been lending a shoulder to my friends in America doing their very best to elect Donald Trump
Today, a good friend of mine asked me how I could do that, given Trumps support for Israel?
That stumped me
I do have an answer, but wow, there's actually a lot behind that answer, how to approach it and disseminate the truth here?
Hmmmm
Ok we have to start with the facts
Consider this post a statement, not an academic article. I'm not going to provide a single link or quote another human being in this. I'll just tell you my truth. After that, fine, reply to the post, we can thrash this out more, but this is what I have to say
In terms of the Geo Politics of the Middle East, it cannot be understood as one country against another country, and that's what it is. It's not like that. Its about countries being allies of each other, sometimes when pretending not to be. It's a right long bloody mess since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Oil Industry at the birth of the 20th Century
Now we are 100 years later
I'm going to keep it simple and focus only on the United States
Immediately after WWII the USA made a treaty with the Kingdom of Saud. The Saudi's would sell Americans their Oil, and the Americans would give them money. In return, America would defend Saudi Arabia. And agree NOT to interfere with Saudi Religion
This deal defined the middle east and still does today. This alliance between the USA and SA, backed up by the UK, has seen the Wahibists and Salafists from the Mosques of SA forment revolution across the middle east and out into Asia without US interference. When the cold war got warm in 79, USA and SA got Islamist Jihadi's released from Jails in Egypt and elsewhere, where they had languished after failed revolutions, and set them lose in Afghanistan to become Muhajadeen. That decision, and the clever power plays of the jihadists, has led to the Caliphate of ISIS and the Chaos across Iraq and Syria since 2010, as well as other flashpoints, Libya, Tunisia etc
In addition, the creation of OPEC and the banking crisis of the 70's, followed by the solution of creating a lot more money in the 80's selling loans and expanding the money supply, followed by computer trading in the 90's and illusionary financial products in the 00's, were all survived by using the alliance with Saudi Arabia. As the major partner in OPEC, and America's ally, SA has assured that Oil is sold only in US$. This is the "petrodollar" for at its peak, this system meant all countries had to buy US$ to buy or trade Oil....this system has somewhat broken down and hasn't been able to prevent competition entering the market. SA tried to wreck the US fracking industry and destroy a competitive industry by dropping the oil price via OPEC to $25 a barrel LESS than fracking needed to be uneconomic. America's debt is leveraged against the value of the dollar, the value of the dollar is hinged on the petrodollar, and that the dollar cannot collapse while America can still enforce the purchase of Oil for US$... Saddam Hussein... Colonel Ghadaffi... Assad... they ALL have something in common, and to see how the US plays hardball research the overthrow of Mossadeq in Iran in the 1950's ....
But while all this happened, a third player came into this relationship of power and geostrategic dominance
Israel
In 1967 Israel struck out in the 6 days War and captured masses of Territory, leading to the outer border of Israel today, trapping "occupied territories behind a border that jumped forwards in 1 week
In return for ending that war, Israel was brought into the same deal. Since then, BOTH Israel AND Saudi Arabia have been under the protection of the United States: even as they scheme against each other
And then we come to 9/11
I spent years researching 9/11, sifting the evidence, helping to define the most credible theory. And yet I hardly get a chance to talk about it, I mean really talk about it, and I cant say anything worth saying about Israel unless I talk about it, so...
9/11 was a conspiracy between the USA, Israel, and Saudi Arabia
It's a psyop. A psychological operation. The crucial element of a psy-op is, anything other than the official cover story, must be irrational
So we have these elements:
The WTC Complex recently purchased by Larry Silverstein, Israeli very rich person
NORAD not responding as its decades long established procedures, practised 10,000 times, said it should
The two plane impacts in WTC 1 and 2: Shock and Awe part 1
The collapse by demolition of WTC 1 and 2: TERROR Shock part 2
The collapse by demolition of WTC 7: Hiding all the paperwork
The Plane crashed in Pennsylvania: NORAD finally doing something shot down air to air missile, cover story, passenger takeover and crash. Destination of plane unknown but White House rational target
The Plane crashed into the Pentagon: A bunker buster missile
1 plane missing and... ? ? ? ? Nope. Still don't know. No data. Its said to have crashed into the pentagon, but the pentagon is evidence of a missile impact. Where is the 4th Plane? Simply flown into the sea and disappeared???
The US provided the narrative the access and the shutdown/confusion on the day. The US also protected the Saudi supplied hijackers to make sure the attack happened. Israel provided the signals intelligence and the purchase of the WTC site. There was a shutdown of the towers 2 days before. A team of 10 to 20 men for each tower would be enough to rig it.
Why did the US do this? An organisation called PNAC and its allies in the military industrial complex. PNAC, Project for new American century, wished to create a catalysing event to allow America to project its Military across the world, into the middle east, and into Afghanistan. Bush and Cheney were key members of this Cabal. And as the two allies of geo political dominance, SA and Israel were coming along for this ride....
And of course, the plan organised between the 3 partners came off rather beautifully, lets be honest. And kicked off the War on Terror still going on today...
Ah there. A motive. Stop the War on Terror. Yes. A key and VERY important aim...
Ok fast forward 15 years to today
The alliance has held, but become ever more under pressure, 2012, a major setback, the USA/UK tag team FAILED to get international justification for an "adventure" in Syria 3 years ago, since then the PNAC faction and Deep State, now transferred to Obama's flag, have continued their War of chaos and division but failed to achieve the decisive victory (possibly because they don't want to!) ISIS and other forces operating in Iraq and Syria are getting a lot of help, trucks, weapons, an oil for cash deal with Turkey, rumour the US itself founded the organisation from its assets...
Now we are at confrontation point with Russia, which has stepped in to back Assad in Syria. And you know what? Whatever the propaganda says: Russia has not broken any international laws. And its not alone. China. Iran. Iraq. Syria. All stand together now and the campaign against ISIS is approaching military solution
American media and government has become so utterly hostile to Russia they are in an undeclared state of war! The propaganda is outrageous and viscious. A Clinton Victory assures another 4 years of War and Russia, and Europe, dragged into the death and destruction
Along comes Mr Trump
What we have in Trump, is a revolution, and a new alliance, with the US Truth Movement, especially Infowars and its allies, aided by WikiLeaks
Trump is NOT a Republican. He is a strong man, a Wallstreet Mogul, some see a Lion of a Man, others see a Pig! But he knows his own mind and is slave to no-one. He is a long standing television personality. Hes very well known!
He is now on the verge of the Presidency. As I write this, the Clinton Campaign is collapsing, because this Revolutionary alliance has captured the Republican Party and taken complete control of its agenda, its a powerful new era in American politics opening as people who have been fed the globalist media apathy since the 1950's, are rediscovering themselves, their spirt and what made America great in the first place
America has never been perfect. But it HAS been GREAT, especially on the ascendant at the end of WWII. America has all sorts of problems, but it needs the old corrupt ways to end and a Reformation, for the American people to have the opportunities to be proud of themselves and their country again
I battle against Globalism, as much as I say that we are all ONE people and Racism is a delusion, for Race itself does not exist in the code of the Genes....
A position that needs inner character and determination, to be honest
Back to Trump
Trump hasn't just come out of no-where. Social pressures have been building inside America ever since... well certainly every since Freedom was clamped down and America got the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security. The policies of Bush just rolled over into the policies of Obama without a bump, all smoothed over by the media, all owned by just six corporations, all partners with the powers running the White House (and NO, its not been the President! Obama is an employee of Goldman Sachs. Though he can be disarmingly cute on Television. And his own ass is right now his primary concern amidst the detonation, not just of Hillary Clinton's campaign, but the DNC itself...
Its the globalised grounding down and dumbing down and diluting of culture into a homogenised corporate fuzz that has woken that spark of resisitance in the people of America. Its those with COURAGE and HONOUR who have woken to the call who have responded. Its YOU GUYS and your determination to live in a free and strong society... well... there are 17.6 million of us in Britain who are COMPLETELY WITH YOU
And Trump is very good and doing so very well in so many ways. He's going to be a great President
However no President escapes some compromise
And I do not know what deal with Israel President Trump might make: I am sure there will be no sparing the blushes of Saudi Arabia in the days to come
Trump has made common cause with the Israeli lobby in clearing the way for the presidency. But he hasn't taken their money, at least, he didn't, not until he had clearly won the nomination on this own merit and the mass backing of his supporters. In these last days, as Clinton's bid collapses into shame and scandal, money is flooding to Trump to power him into the Oval Office
Should (WHEN!!!) he take the Presidency, this is Guarenteed:
1) The exposure of Huma Abedin's deep connection to Saudi Arabia
2) Hillary Clinton exposed to be compromised passing secret information to Saudi in exchange for money for the Clinton Foundation (Greed! Arrogance! And so many other sins!)
3) The pursuit of redress from Saudi Arabia for supplying the 9/11 Hijackers
4) America and Russia working together to defeat ISIS
5) Peace in Syria the end of the PNAC agenda the end of the War on Terror, the possibility of a new world Peace
6) Americans set free to help themselves make their country awesome
Yes.
I will back Trump for THAT, its in the greater interest of Human Freedom for America to throw off the corporate slum that his parasite itself into their Nation
However what may not happen:
Any mention on ISRAEL (who is Anthony Weiner?)
Because Trump cant do the world peace so easily, if there is chaos with Israel and its connections at home
Now the Truth Movement will Love Trump for all he has done by becoming the figurehead their energy can smash through
But they are sure not to settle for that
However, that is for the future. I can't see how any of that will go
What I do know, is that I reserve the right to criticise any and all states on the planet, and their politicians, for the actions they have taken. That includes the State of Israel
Well I hope this has been helpful, I hope I have addressed the issue of where I stand on Trump and Israel as things stand today. We must stop Clinton and the PNAC cartel and halt the War on Terror, we must have peace with Russia, we must rebuild the middle east, we must make it attractive and desirable for European refugees to wish to return to their Syrian Homes
Ultimately, both Saudi Arabia and Israel will be dragged into the light of the Historical Record
Including Israel accounting to the world on the question of Palestine, and finally agreeing to do something SENSIBLE (naughty boys need to be taught to share!)
I can't promise justice for all the guilty as much as I would wish to
But we can find as much as we possibly can, while not building war, but PEACE

And then we might all get out of this alive, move beyond all the pain of the past, and build a world fit for the Grandchildren

Hello My name is John. I'm a Global Truth Campaigner. And I'm writing this for all American's to share with you why I think America MUST Vote Trump!

Hope that has grabbed your attention

To start: ground rules. I speak for myself, and those who agree with me. Other Truth campaigners will not. That's cool. I welcome their Truth too. And who to vote for is the greatest use of our Power. If you don't agree with me: that's fine. I defend human freedom. That includes yours, including the freedom to vote for someone else or not vote at all.

This moment, today, this window of opportunity, from NOW until 8th November, has its origins at least 15 years ago, when the Twin Towers fell. Some will tell you it goes back to a Traitor's scrawl on Jekell Island in 1913, and that will be true too.

I think it starts in the days of Bush 1 and the first Iraq War. I was watching, I saw the Kuwaiti Ambassadors daughter brought to the UN to tell fairy stories of babies in incubators to justify ground War... who else remembers Bill Hick's blistering denunciations at the time? RIP.

And clearly Bill Clintons two Terms...a slippery slope further and faster away from America’s Constitution, into the control of Globalism....

Here is the truth America is struggling to come to terms with. The Bush Family and the Clinton Family, they are in cahoots with the same big players and through the 90's, as Alex Jones warned at the time, as tanks crushed the bodies of children at Waco, this cartel stole your freedom and drowned you in media programming one step at a time (And because the cartel was becoming a little too obvious, Obama was hired through JP Morgan to front the cartel the last 8 years. When you compare what Obama promised in 2008, with how he has acted.... a cosy elite cartel forming the One Party State....)

Then 2001 and those awful days, the fall of the towers, the rush to War, last 5 minutes of Star Wars episode II x 9/11. Hello Patriot Act. Hello Homeland Security. Hello TSA And ever since, War War War. Afghanistan. Iraq II, Arab Spring, Libya, Syria THEN oops! The UK didn't play ball, British MP's had a crisis of conscience because their voters were insisting, don't you dare... no international excuse for the PNAC mob to charge on in...

The last few years, drone strikes, ISIS, Toyota Trucks, a LOT of shiny new Toyota trucks, whoops! "accidently" that huge unguarded cache of weapons and ammunition went to ISIS, not those "moderate" rebels after all... The War in Yemen The Guilt! Bush (more than two of them), Cheney, Rice, Cameron, Obama, both Clintons.... and a supporting cast of thousands.... this is what they have made America, a bully creating constant chaos in Ordo Ab Chao strategy, manipulating in the name of the Petro Dollar....

And talking of chaos... Europe last year, true numbers are unknown, 2 million plus not integrating, systems straining, Public protesting, Intolerance rising: Fast! and ISIS bullets and terror attacks, slaughtered while watching a Rock Band... Europe cannot take this... EU political agitating for dominance of Ukraine with Russia...

Ah Russia. So maligned when it is so brutally honest in all it says, it simply needs people to go listen. In late 2015 Russia stepped in, allied with China, Syria, Iran and Iraq, to stop the Assad government falling to the USA backed "moderate rebels" and the US backed Jihad'is of ISIS Of course Russia can be criticised. So can Assad. And where justified, I’ve done so. But one simple fact, is that at no time here has Russia broken ANY International Laws: but as evidence of Obama/Clinton support of ISIS comes to light, we find out its America’s own leaders who are International War Criminals...

Not speculation. Fact. Genocide charges are appropriate. 100,000 dead in Syria alone, many of them Christians. Talking of deaths, well over 4 million since the start of the War on Terror, few of them combatants, and the actual cost of each confirmed dead enemy fighter runs into the MILLIONS of US$! Could have paid them to live like Kings, never had a War, and been much better off!

(Please note: I am pro-Military and those who serve. I am against them being led by donkeys, especially criminally corrupt ones)

Since Russia blocked the PNAC War on Terror Agenda, propaganda against Russia has literally become insane. For months, “WikiLeaks” has been the Russian pawn in the media narrative, and every Leak damaging to Clinton, a Russian fraud. Well guess what, Alex Jones just reported the leaks to WikiLeaks do NOT come from Russia: nothing to do with Russia: they come from Patriots within US intelligence! Who have risked, and some lost, their lives to bring YOU the evidence of Clinton corruption: in the hope YOU will act!

Which brings us now to the man himself: Donald Trump

Its a fact: Putin has said he can work with Trump so the US and Russia, together, can stop the Jihadi's and return Peace to Syria. And we ALL, Europe, Russia, US, Middle East, Africa, ALL need Peace. Trump is the only man who could possibly deliver this. Think about that. There isn't another candidate who could change US Foreign policy, not in the Republican Party: Not in the Democrat Party.

For the first time in 15 years: A genuine chance exists to END the War on Terror... And create an Alliance with Russia for the greater good of the world, the American People AND the Russian People While Clinton is VERY clear: if she is allowed to give the orders, Europe and Russia are going to be dragged into that hot war in Syria, all so her CRIMINAL CABAL can continue to hijack YOUR Country!

Only Trump....

A real chance....

For World Peace....

THAT, for those who wish to know, is why I have lent my efforts to campaign for Trump these last few weeks... as I thought for Brexit before... for Human Freedom.. for world peace...

Psst! Here's a secret:

Trump is not a Republican!

Not really.

He's a monster mogul and a reality TV star!

Hes far bigger than that box: He's Donald Trump! Independent of thought and of action!

THIS man said: “ENOUGH”!

THIS man threw his reputation to the dogs to take a stand, for the Greater Good THIS man, with his OWN money, not a dime of anyone else's, took on the whole Republican National Congress cartel who have been stitching Americans up with globalists wrapped in stars and stripes (Trump didn't take a single donation until after he had won the Republican Nomination. Donations are now streaming in to power him into the White House: the vast majority small donations from ordinary Americans, this has NEVER been seen before!)

And because YOU, the American People, backed him and backed him and backed him he DID it, he won the candidacy, and YOU all know the truth: THAT was the start of this Revolution!

Now he is days from the White House His opponent is a crumpled witch sprawled prostrate in her own dirt Every artifice and lie of the complicit mainstream media defeated, their candidate a bedevilled mess, that should never have been on the ticket, and is certainly going to Jail...

He will Drain the Swamp...

He will bring Reformation...

He will Restore AMERICA

But here's what really matters:

What "Make America Great Again" really means...

An America controlled by the American people, FOR the American people!

...."Left" and "Right".... "Rich" and "Poor"... "Black" and "White"....

Forget all that division stuff for a moment, forget that Trump has to argue against his opponents, that they say mean things about him, that false allegations are heaped on him, that no-one cared to attack him BEFORE he stood for President, forget WikiLeaks, forget Project Veritas, forget Infowars...

Who are you? What are your Values? Why do YOU Care?

What kind of country do you want?

A Paradise, by your own hand and good stewardship?

Or a Swamp, asset stripped and dumped upon by Globalist Corporatists?

I promise you:

If you clearly see where you stand right now If the foetid odour of a corrupted society offends your nostrils

If you see as I see

If you seek as I seek:

See that a chance like this, to go beyond and bring down the old "goddess of democracy" dog-and-poney routine the fabulously wealth plutocracy has used to maintain their control...the faux one party state... see the chance now for the people, with Unity, to say "NO!"

“We will vote TRUMP on November 8th!”

So much has been written. To explore the truth of these words, there is so much to be seen Trump is America's Last chance and the last best chance for the whole World

2020 is NOT an option

It MUST be 2016!

If America does this If America chooses to heal and restore itself, to turn to Peace, not War...

No matter what those same global corporate media companies claim from televisions around the World

If United States Zone corp NAFTA Tax Farm...

Can become America again, can become GREAT again:

If the corruption is rooted out and the War on Terror brought to the end...

The people of the world will Love you for it:

More than America has ever been loved before!

That is my case

That is your choice

November 8th 2016 VOTE TRUMP

God Bless America

See you on the other side....

John White

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The Cavalry General @The_Cavalry_General
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This is exactly how I see it. All of it. I'm not American, I'm Australian. I used to be happy to live under the Pax Americana as an Imperial Citizen but then I started seeing that the Empire wasn't what it said it was. I started to see where the Empire had taken us, was taking us, where all this was leading. I saw what the Empire had done, the corruption of those behind the Imperial throne. For the longest time I couldn't see a way out. And then this election came along, as always I did my research... I started to listen to things Donald Trump had said a long time ago, that he was intelligent, that he'd seen things going the way they had, that he believed... deep thinkers I respected started to do the same about him, disparate voices across the spectrum... I saw the Imperial machine go into overdrive against him...like it has done against Putin as he thwarted their plans time and time again and I knew then that he truly was a threat to the powers that had control of the Empire. I started to believe there was a chance to give the Empire back to the Citizens. Understand, the Empire is so much more than America... it's all of us under the Pax Americana. November 8th is our chance to stop the madness. Don't let us down, for all our sakes._________________--
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."

It's quite some time since I stepped backed from 9/11 admin'ing to take on the EU (2009) Seven years later, so much has happened that we could not have believed then

The two posts above are my personal 9/11 Truth view, and my position on why it must be Trump for US (World Peace View)

Although actually, Stein is just as good a vote, as long as its not Clinton

Today, trying to make some sense over the appalling latest leaks from WikiLeaks with the Child Sex abuse and Satanism of the Clintons and their allies bursting out across the net... NYPD are also on the scene and in some ways, they have MORE powers than the FBI

Two more days to go, we must hope, the American people resist the TV mind control, go out to vote in large numbers for Trump, and throw this Criminal Cartel out of power for the first time since Father Bush stood behind Reagen..._________________Free your Self and Free the World

Another matter: facebook (and twitter) banning of truth campaigners from being able to post/share on groups, or banned altogether for a day, a week, a month....

There seems to be a mass epidemic of this. Most content creators I know seem to endure some sort of FB ban on an ongoing basis. Major radio hosts (Richie Allen) to minor posters

Ok some of this will be legitimate, stupid hateful posts, harassing an ex etc, but this is not what we are talking about

One day, share on 50 groups fine, the next, share on 10, banned. No-one knows the criteria so no-one knows if the ban is justified, and Facebook simply does not answer any complaints appeals or feedback forms, just shuts people off and leaves them to stew

The assumption is its an "anti-spam web bot" falsly classifying legitiamate shares as spam... but what if its not that? what if its because of WHAT we share....what if pushing certain issues into "trending" is not something Facebook will allow, because of its own Change agenda?

Well I steer clear of posting like a lunatic so as much as I was aware of this, I wasn't personally affected, although I've been making better use of the groups system recently and becoming more noticed...

Until 17:27 on Friday 4th, when I was suddenly blocked until the 11th for "abuse of the sharing function"

He said: “A strong Nato is good for the United States, and good for Europe.”

He added: “Nato’s security guarantee is a treaty commitment

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“All allies have made a solemn commitment to defend each other. This is something absolutely unconditioned.”

Mr Stoltenberg said the only time Nato’s all-for-one alliance-wide defence commitment had been triggered was when America suffered the Al Qaeda terror attacks on September 11 2001.

Dr Aidan Hehir, Reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster, said Mr Trump’s stance - and his open admiration of President Putin - cast doubt on the alliance which had helped preserve European peace for 67 years.

He said: “Nato’s influence on international peace and security is fundamentally based on the credibility of its commitments, and in particular the willingness of the US to abide by these commitments.

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Trump has become an apologist for Putin and the Ukraine and Georgia will be extremely nervous

“Donald Trump’s election fundamentally diminishes this credibility and thus increases the likelihood of war in Europe.

“In particular, a Trump presidency has ominous implications for the Baltic states and the Balkans.

“Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty stipulates that an armed attack against a Nato member ‘shall be considered an attack against them all’.

“Trump has stated publicly that he will not necessarily abide by this commitment if Russia invades Latvia, Lithuania and/or Estonia.

“The prospects of an armed attack by Russia against these states naturally increases if Russia believes that Nato’s collective defence commitment is suspended.”
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Dr Brian Klaas of the London School of Economics, said: “I think we woke up in a much more dangerous world than the one we went to bed in.

“The US pulling out of Nato would be the most dangerous development in decades - since the end of the Cold War.

He added: “Baltic states are waking up to horror.

“He has become an apologist for Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine and Georgia will be extremely nervous.”

And he said Mr Trump will also become a “recruiting tool” for ISIS because of his anti-Islam rhetoric.

But Russia hopes that Mr Trump will soften the US stance by lifting sanctions.

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Mr Trump has expressed US resentment about many European members of Nato

And Mr Putin hopes Mr Trump will stand by his campaign comments on working more closely with Russia in the fight against terrorism - which could ease tensions between the two powers in Syria.

The view that Mr Trump might actually ease relations between Moscow and Washington was put forward by a former head of the British armed forces last week.

General Lord Richards said defeated presidential rival Hilary Clinton was more likely to set the West on a course for war if she pushed ahead with a safe zone in Syria that might require US aircraft to shoot down the Russian fighter jets.

By contrast, Mr Trump might re-boot relations between the two nations.

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12 hours ago
55tan
NATO is in desperate need of megga changes at the top. So is the EU and UN which are both w4rmongering factions of the globalists who have never been in uniform never mind been to a real w4r..
For a start the UN HQ should be moved OUT of New York and put somewhere very inhospitable to stop it being a champagne appointment to the 'diplomats' who are all cronies and gravy train robbers.
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13 hours ago
NotDaunted
Do these idiots know anything about cause and effect? STOP poking your thumbs at Putin on the Russian border and STOP using OUR troops to fight your dirty battles when you haven't even paid for them - we have paid our NATO contributions and even though we are no longer in the EU you still expect to exploit us in EVERY way!
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15 hours ago
Tyrfing
How about we relocate that lefty bed of benefits scroungers, The London School of Economics, to North Korea ?
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17 hours ago
Jamessss
Brussels wants an EU army. When that comes in, then NATO will automatically be defunct anyway.

If Brussels wants to sabre rattle the Russkies then they can pay for their own defence rather than expecting others to foot the bill & ultimately save their cowardly @rses all over again when TSHTF.
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17 hours ago
Nirvana
More scare mongering. He said that members of NATO will have to pay their fair share and they can't expect Americans to pay for their defense when they won't even contribute the amount they had agreed to.
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19 hours ago
Cocteau
Good.

NATO is now swiftly becoming a threat to world peace by constantly threatening Putin.

For this writer, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States didn’t come as a surprise. The same, however, could not be said of numerous “experts” and media political pundits, many of whom responded in shock and incredulity to the result in the early hours on November 9. Independent journalist, Neil Clark quoted one irate Oxford-educated columnist who tweeted:

“Just woke up. Jesus H Christ, America. What the f*** just done. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

For such “experts” the idea that ordinary American’s could have voted for a chauvinistic, misogynistic and demagogic racist as opposed to a what the media bubble perceived was Clinton’s modern liberal and humanist values and sense of dynastic self-entitlement, was inconceivable. The pollsters who were wrong about the 2015 UK general election, the EU Referendum and Corbyn’s election victory, predicted with near unanimity that Clinton would win as illustrated by CNBC in the graphic below.

Analysis of the polls prompted Dan Hodges, who has been wrong on virtually everything else, to make the following prediction on Twitter:

Meanwhile, hardcore anti-Corbyn ‘socialist’ and former adviser to Tony Blair, John McTernan tweeted:

The “expert” views above were largely predicated on what the polls were telling them. In view of the pollsters latest debacle, it must be increasingly obvious to the public that the purpose of the metropolitan media elite’s use of polls – which as Mark J Doran pointed out – “are expensive and have no shelf-life” – is to influence, rather than reflect, public opinion.

The notion that Trump’s flamboyant and largely inflammatory campaign was directed at a disillusioned, disenfranchised and alienated working class, while Clinton’s rather lackluster and robotic campaign was aimed towards a corporate-media elite, appeared to be beyond the understanding of the liberal-left broadsheets. Jonathan Freedland’s piece for the Guardian entitled, Who is to blame for this awful election?, for example, was written as if he had just ventured to earth from another planet.

At no point did Freedland make reference to Clinton’s complicit role in the destruction of Libya, the dismembering of Syria, her role in Honduras or the comments she made in relation to Palestinian elections. Neither, did he mention the disastrous domestic economic policies of the Obama administration and its fetishizing of neoliberalism, or the wider ratcheting-up by the establishment of anti-Russian propaganda. Instead, the politics of identity were preferred. It appeared to be beyond the comprehension of the Guardian journalist that one of the main reasons why the American people voted Trump into power was that the failed economic policies of his predecessors over the last two decades, have resulted in a fall in their incomes, while those at the top have increased.

Neither, apparently, had Freedland considered that the de-industrialization and hollowing-out of U.S cities and the mass outsourcing of jobs, might actually equate to the American public voting for a politician who promised a major programme of investment in public infrastructure, a revitalization of industry and the creation of millions of jobs to boost a flailing economy akin to the New Deal. Nowhere were these factors mentioned in Freedland’s analysis. But perhaps most significantly of all, not a single reference was made in respect to the American public’s lack of any desire for a new cold war and military confrontation with Russia which Clinton’s rhetoric promoted, nor of the Wikileaks revelations of her e-mails proving “beyond reasonable doubt the extent of Hillary’s corruption.”

Predictably, recriminations from liberal academics and others followed the realization that Trump had won. Economist Paul Krugman, for example, exclaimed on Twitter:

Paul Krugman ‏@paulkrugman Nov 8
“Btw, Jill Stein has managed to play Ralph Nader. Without her Florida might have been saved.”

Krugman’s tweet was a clear slur on all those who had the temerity to vote on principle for a candidate who was closer in ideology and policy to Sanders than Clinton.

Meanwhile, this is what @RachelleLefevre had to say on the subject:
“The numbers don’t lie: If you voted for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, you voted for Trump. You were told. Don’t ever tell yourself different.”
I responded to Rachelle’s tweet with:
Daniel Margrain‏@hairymarx1
“Let me guess. During the primaries, you favoured warmonger Clinton over the man who would have beaten Trump?”

This is important. The Democratic National Committee rigged the election against Bernie Sanders in order to ensure their favoured candidate, Clinton, would win. I’m almost certain that had Sanders run against Trump he would have won the race to the White House. So its somewhat rich for a Clinton supporter to be critical of people for voting for a third candidate on the basis that it split the Clinton vote.

There’s an argument to be had whether there’s a core element among Trump’s supporters motivated by the racist sentiments and crass economic nationalism expressed by the president-elect. It’s also legitimate to acknowledge the anti-intellectualism and ‘post-truth’ nature of modern society in which major grievances are embodied, for example, in the comments of Michael Gove and the public’s reaction to the High Court judgement regarding Brexit. But this is vastly overshadowed by the real socioeconomic concerns of the mass of working people in terms of the race towards the lowest wages, employment rights and working conditions in an era of neoliberal globalization.

It’s the latter that Freedland and other metropolitan elite commentators and journalists routinely fail to acknowledge in their articles and opinion pieces. The reason they fail to acknowledge it, is because they don’t understand what’s going on and totally underestimate the public’s disdain towards them. As Bernie Sander’s put it on Twitter:

It’s this failure to understand that contributes enormously to the rise of right-wing populist movements of which Trump’s electoral success exemplifies. The gap between what elite political commentators believe is credible on the one hand, and the reality on the ground on the other, is enormous. Unless this gap closes, corporate newspaper sales will continue to decline. With declining readership comes falling advertising revenues which means more newspapers going to the wall in the months and years ahead.

By Daniel Margrain There appears to be a pattern emerging within conventional democratic politics that seems set to break the neoliberal stranglehold that has dominated the said politics over the last few decades that is nothing short of revolutionary. Symptomatic of this radical shift as far as Europe is concerned has…
In "American primaries"
The hidden hands that feed racism

‘Who are the anti-Trump protesters besmirching the name of progressives by pretending to be progressives and by refusing to accept the outcome of the presidential election? They look like, and are acting worse than, the “white trash” that they are denouncing.

I think I know who they are. They are thugs for hire and are paid by the Oligarchy to delegitimize Trump’s presidency in the way that Washington and the German Marshall Fund paid students in Kiev to protest the democratically elected Ukrainian government in order to prepare the way for a coup.

The organization, change.org, which claims to be a progressive group, but might be a front, along with other progressive groups, for the Oligarchy, is destroying the reputation of all progressives by circulating a petition that directs the electors of the Electoral Collage to annul the election by casting their votes for Hillary. Remember how upset progressives were when Trump said he might not accept the election result if there was evidence that the vote was rigged? Now progressives are doing what they damned Trump for saying he might do under certain conditions.

The Western presstitutes used the protests in Kiev to delegitimize a democratically elected government and to set it up for a coup. The protest pay was good enough that non-Ukrainians came from nearby countries to participate in the protest in order to collect the money. At the time I posted the amounts paid daily to protesters. Reports came in to me from Eastern and Western Europe from people who were not Ukrainian but were paid to protest as if they were Ukrainians.

The same thing is going on with the Trump protests. CNN reports that “for many Americans across the country, Donald Trump’s victory is an outcome they simply refuse to accept. Tens of thousands filled the streets in at least 25 US cities overnight.” This is the exact reporting that the Oligarchy desired from its presstitutes and got.

I hope no one thinks that simultaneous protests in 25 cities were a spontaneous event. How did 25 independent protests manage to come up with the same slogans and the same signs on the same night following the election?

What is the point of the protests, and what interest is served by them? As the Romans always asked, “who benefits?”

There is only one answer: The Oligarchy and only the Oligarchy benefits.

Trump is a threat to the Oligarchy, because he intends to stop the giveaway of American jobs to foreigners. The jobs giveaway, sanctified by the neoliberal junk economists as “free trade,” is one of the main reasons for the 21st century worsening of the US income distribution. Money that was formerly paid in middle class wages and salaries to American manufacturing employees and college graduates has been re-routed to the pockets of the One Percent……’_________________'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.

The US alternative media has become a vehicle for elite propaganda. They have bought the Trump cool aid. They've been pumping out 'Hiliary will steal the election' propaganda to confuse people. Trump stole the election. The proof is in the exit polls and the vote count.

Here are the unadjusted exit polls for the 2016 election, as compiled by Jonathan Simon author of the indispensable CODE RED: Computerized Election Theft and The New American Century ).

These figures make quite clear that this election may have been “rigged” after all, just as Donald Trump kept warning except that it was rigged to make him president, and to maintain the GOP’s grip on the Senate.

Thus Donald Trump, and the Republicans, arguably “won” this election just as Hillary Clinton, and the DNC, “won” her the Democratic nomination—i.e., by fraudulently “beating” Bernie Sanders in the primaries. (For the evidence of all those thefts, see “Democracy Lost,” from Election Justice USA: http://www.election-justice-usa.org.)

US elections have been tampered with repeatedly especially in recent times and it isn't a left/right thing. If this election was rigged it was the puppet masters and not the puppets that did the rigging. Only the puppet masters have the power to do so

Some of the alternative media is elite propaganda and some isn't

The elite undoubtedly wanted Hillary to win but the thing to realise about US elections is that if you are a pres candidate for dems or reps this can only happen if the puppet masters agree. In other words whoever wins the game is the same.

My reckoning is that at the last minute a deal was done with Trump. On the back of the Weiner emails exposing highly damning evidence of child abuse and child trafficking (Spirit Cooking, Pizzagate, Lolita Express, etc.) that this was thought to be so toxic to both Clintons and Obama that a deal was done with Trump. You win if you forget about holding Hilary to account (appointing a special prosecutor, etc.) and shut up about it. All this BS about Hilary being great

I think both set of WikiLeaks released emails contained so much hard evidence of what we all suspected that it has freaked them out

The financial establishment split, and there was a split among the Joint Chiefs and at the Pentagon, too. Many, reportedly, did not agree with Clinton’s no fly zone idea. But I suspect this was less about lying and bribery (I mean who cares) and more about a growing fear in all corners of the political authority structure that Hillary was the real loose cannon in this election, not the Donald.

The one thing I am surprised about, and perhaps I shouldn’t be, is that the Clinton machine allowed it to happen. But then, in certain corners of the financial elite, trust was eroding in their favored candidate. But the Dems were arrogant, too. And inept. They ran a terrible campaign with one of the worst candidates ever to run for president. So, no, it wasn’t sexism or racism, it was anger at the status quo. An inarticulate anger, but still anger. The big mistake of liberals was to think Trump was bringing fascism, without realizing fascism was already here.

Trump is likely to have similar vote numbers to Romney in 2012 and 2m fewer than Clinton. There was no surge in racism that meant whites shifted from Democrat to Republican. The Republicans were a white nationalist party for a long time. But racists have been emboldened by Trump.

Rothschilds were involved with both Clinton and Trump. The Rothschild/Rockefellers ahve just allowed the looney Neo-Con faction to take over.

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...But it is increasingly clear that white racial solidarity is one of the most powerful forces in American politics; any explanation of Trump’s success, and any movement aimed at opposing him, must take it seriously...

...The question about white jobs is powerfully linked to support for Trump over Clinton. Eighty-four percent of whites who believe it is “extremely likely” that whites can’t find a job because employers are hiring people of color instead support Trump, compared with 23 percent of those who think it is “not at all” likely. Among white Democrats, 58 percent who believe people of color are taking jobs support Trump over Clinton, compared with less than 1 percent of those who believe it is not at all likely. Eighty-one percent of white women who think it is “extremely likely” people of color are taking jobs supported Trump, compared with 26 percent who don’t think that...

...Among whites who believe the word “violent” describes black people “extremely well,” 78 percent support Trump, compared with 34 percent of whites who say “not at all well.” Among whites who say “violent” describes Muslims well, 84 percent support Trump, compared to 30 percent who believe the word doesn’t describe Muslims at all...

...Indeed, I remain convinced it is the single most powerful force behind Trumpism, and the racism Trump has unleashed is likely to get worse. Political scientists Spencer Piston and Ashley Jardina recently found that more than half of Trump supporters dehumanize black people (describing black people as less evolved than white people)...

Before Donald Trump was a Republican, He was a stanch Hillary supported, a liberal who made a habit of donation money to liberal politicians. According to reports, the Donald donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

As Chris Sanchez with Business Insider reports:

Despite his recent criticism of the Clinton Foundation, Donald Trump apparently donated at least $100,000 to the organization, according to a 2009 tax document circulated online Tuesday night and foundation records.

The Clinton Foundation’s website shows “Donald J. Trump” under a list of individuals and organizations that donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to the foundation.

The foundation recently came under fire after Trump accused his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of running a “pay-to-play scheme” during her time as secretary of state that allegedly awarded donors with special treatment.

Despite Hillary Clinton going on the record and denouncing any accusations of misconduct, Trump has called for an independent investigation into the matter in addition to demanding that the foundation be shut down entirely.

Gen. James Mattis at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, July 27, 2010. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mattis as his pick for secretary of defense. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / The New York Times)
Gen. James Mattis at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, July 27, 2010. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mattis as his pick for secretary of defense. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / The New York Times)

President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine General James Mattis to exercise civilian control over the Department of Defense. Originally known as the Department of War, it was renamed Department of Defense in 1949. But war is precisely what Mattis, known as "Mad Dog," has enthusiastically done throughout his career.

In 2005, Mattis declared, "It's fun to shoot some people." That was one year after he oversaw the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq, which began in April 2004, after four Blackwater Security Consulting mercenaries were killed and their bodies mutilated. In retaliation, US forces attacked the village and killed 736 people. At least 60 percent of them were women and children, according to independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who interviewed doctors at Fallujah General Hospital and at other small clinics inside the city both during and after the April siege.

In November 2004 NBC News correspondent Kevin Sites, embedded with the US Marines, heard Staff Sgt. Sam Mortimer radio that "everything to the west is weapons free." Weapons Free, explained Sites, "means the Marines can shoot whatever they see -- it's all considered hostile." The rules of engagement come from the top, and Mattis was in charge.

Collective punishment against an occupied population constitutes a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Yet, according to the Study Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, the US attack on Fallujah in November 2004 killed between 4,000 and 6,000 civilians. Targeting civilians is a war crime.

To read more stories like this, visit Human Rights and Global Wrongs.

Mattis' enthusiasm for battle may lead us into a war with Iran. A vigorous critic of the nuclear deal with Iran, Mattis said in an April 2016 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the Iranian regime is "the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East." He added, however, "there's no going back" on the deal and it would be an issue for the next president.

CIA Director John Brennan recently warned of the dangers of canceling the Iran deal, saying it would be "disastrous" and "the height of folly." In a BBC interview, Brennan explained that dismantling the deal would set off an arms race in the Middle East and embolden the hard-liners in the Iranian government.

To his credit, Mattis has been clear-eyed about blowback from US policy on Israel. He noted the United States is paying a "security price" in the Middle East because the US is considered biased in favor of Israel, and Israel is in danger of becoming an "apartheid" state.

"I paid a military security price every day as a commander of CENTCOM because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel," Mattis said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado in 2013, adding that this perception undercuts support from "all the moderate Arabs who want to be with us, because they can't come out publicly in support of people who don't show respect for the Arab Palestinians."

Mattis criticized Israel for building settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying they "are going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option." He added that the settlements might weaken Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state and could lead to apartheid.

"If I'm in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to the east and there's 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don't get to vote -- apartheid," Mattis said.

Also to his credit, Mattis opposes torture -- because it doesn't work. During the presidential campaign, Trump pledged to reinstitute waterboarding, saying he would "bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding" because suspected terrorists "deserve it anyway, for what they're doing."

Waterboarding has long been considered torture, which is a war crime. Indeed, after World War II, the United States tried, convicted and hanged Japanese military leaders for waterboarding.

Trump may have changed his mind about torture after conferring with Mattis. Trump told The New York Times that when he asked Mattis what the general thought of waterboarding, Mattis replied, "I've never found it to be useful. I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I do better with that than I do with torture." Trump said he was "very impressed by that answer. I was surprised, because [Mattis is] known as being like the toughest guy."

Indeed, former high-level FBI interrogators, including Ali Soufan and Dan Coleman, maintain that a person being tortured will say anything to get the torture to stop -- even providing false information. The best results, interrogators add, are obtained with humane methods.

Moreover, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded, "the use of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of obtaining accurate information or gaining detainee cooperation."

"If there's any concern at all [about Mattis], it's the principle of civilian control over the military. This role was never intended to be a kind of Joint Chiefs of Staff on steroids, and that's the biggest single risk tied to Mattis," a former senior Pentagon official told The Washington Post. The framers of the Constitution were wary of putting the military in charge of making foreign policy, which explicitly resides in the executive branch; that is, the president as commander-in-chief and his secretary of defense.

Trump has also chosen notorious hawks Michael Flynn for National Security Advisor and Mike Pompeo for CIA Director.

But the president-elect has stated, "We will use military force only in cases of vital necessity to the national security of the United States. We will put an end to attempts of imposing democracy and overthrowing regimes abroad, as well as involving ourselves in situations in which we have no right to intervene."

Let's hope Trump can maintain that position in the face of inevitable militaristic advice from Mattis, Flynn and Pompeo. Trump frequently makes contradictory statements about foreign policy. During the campaign, he insisted that he opposed the Iraq War and Libya regime change, when in fact he supported both. In fact, Trump called for all US troops in the Middle East to overthrow Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi.

It is our challenge to hold Trump's feet to the fire in every way we can -- speaking out, writing, demonstrating, and pressuring Congress and the White House. We cannot relent in demanding peace.

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MARJORIE COHN

Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild and on the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. Her books include Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law; The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse and Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Visit her website: MarjorieCohn.com. Follow her on Twitter: @MarjorieCohn.

Sexy Security Chick Guarding Bilderberg Traitor and Wheeled Truck Incompetewnt Mattis so He Gets his Old Ugly Ass to his Airliner on Time...

Notice the other Logan Act Traitors: his FM 3-24 butt buddy Patreaus, neocons Kissinger, Rubin, Perle--and the google VP (SPECTRE-style net censorship plans?)--all amongst banksters and nation-state governmental traitors...wonder how many children have these sick Illuminati * have sacrificed to Satan in just the past year?

Trump's first day at the Oval Office after being elected President.
First briefing by the CIA, Pentagon, FBI:

Trump: We must destroy ISIS immediately. No delays.

CIA: We cannot do that, sir. We created them along with Turkey, Saudi, Qatar and others.

Trump: The Democrats created them.

CIA: We created ISIS, sir. You need them or else you would lose funding from the natural gas lobby.
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Utter genius! Great post! I'd love to quote this on my website. Have I permission? I even have the video of Hilary Clinton stating how she set up the Taliban in Afghanistan - http://jacobsm.com/hcaq.mp4 on my thoughts page at http://jacobsm.com/thoughts.htm#clinched_________________Patriotism, religion, tradition and political/corporate alliance are the vehicles they use to fool us passive, peace-loving, family-orientated apes into fighting each other.

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